On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Pedro Francisco
<pedrogfrancisco(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jurgen Kramer <gtmkramer(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> I am getting frequent kernel panics when shutting down my laptop. It is
>> running the latest F17 with all updates.
>>
>> Last messages before the panic are:
>>
>> Cannot finalize remaining file system and devices, giving up.
>> Succesfully changed into root pivot.
>> /shutdown: line 12: /lib/dracut-lib.sh: No such file ore directory
>> [ kernel panic ]
>>
>> Any ideas what's wrong here? My other F17 test rig does not exhibit this
>> problem.
>
> Best guess:
>
> Sounds like the system is switching back to the initramfs during
> shutdown (normal), and then something is messed up in there and causing
> dracut to abort. Since dracut is PID 1 at that point, the kernel is
> unhappy because there is no init process.
>
> Why your initramfs is messed up would be the thing to chase.
I believe I had that issue when I booted F17 using the F16 kernel. You don't
happen to have updated using the non-supported method (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum ) do you?
Hey, don't blame yum upgrading, if you use the F17 kernel, it's fine. :)
-J
Just a theory, though :)
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